Personhood, ethics, and animal cognition [electronic resource] : situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism /
by Varner, Gary E. (Gary Edward).
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199949465 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Animal rights | Cognition in animals | Ethics | Utilitarianism | Hare, R. M. (Richard Mervyn)Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Drawing heavily on recent empirical research to update R.M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism and expand Hare's treatment of 'intuitive level rules,' Gary Varner considers in detail the theory's application to animals while arguing that Hare should have recognized a hierarchy of persons, near-persons, and the merely sentient.
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Drawing heavily on recent empirical research to update R.M. Hare's two-level utilitarianism and expand Hare's treatment of 'intuitive level rules,' Gary Varner considers in detail the theory's application to animals while arguing that Hare should have recognized a hierarchy of persons, near-persons, and the merely sentient.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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